The Garden of Monsters by Lorenza Pieri

Author:Lorenza Pieri
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Europa Editions
Published: 2020-05-06T11:01:17+00:00

Nobody ever spoke of a suicide attempt. It was “the night of the incident,” and then a generic “after what happened,” a premise that from that day forward took away a great deal of Annamaria’s freedom. Miriam invented a justification and a solution. Poor Annamaria had been bullied at school, where they called her “Cowgirl,” she had complexes about her appearance, she had suffered in silence at being made fun of, and that had resulted in an adolescent depression that was difficult to confide to her parents. They had her transferred to a teacher’s training school, and began keeping her under observation and giving her brief interrogations whose sole object was to make themselves feel better. Annamaria accepted everything; the alibis suited her fine, the protection, the fictional reassurance, not having to go to a psychologist, not having to tell anyone the reason why she had wanted to die. The truth was heavy, for her and for her family. It was better to keep the stone on her heart, to let time erode it, to lock it up in a well-hidden place, hoping it would never get out.

Miriam and Sauro did not want to know Annamaria’s version; Saverio’s version was suffocated by another silence, somewhere between punitive and resigned. They told the medics at the hospital that the girl had collapsed and they didn’t know why, maybe she’d taken the pills the doctor had prescribed for their grandfather when he couldn’t sleep. The chief physician was a friend of Sauro’s, and the question of whether or not the incident should be treated as an accident didn’t come up, there was no reason to investigate. Annamaria recovered quickly and without physical after-effects.

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